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Image copyright Getty Images All 12,000 staff employed by sandwich and coffee chain Pret A Manger will receive a £1,000 bonus once the sale of the firm is completed. The company is to be sold by its private equity owners Bridgepoint to Luxembourg-based JAB Holdings. The two firms did not say how much JAB was […]

Image copyright Getty Images Further evidence of the slow-down in the property market has emerged, with fewer people taking out new mortgages to buy a home. Britain’s High Street banks approved 38,505 such loans in September, a drop of 10.1% on the same month last year. It is the third month in a row that […]

Image copyright Getty Images “Big six” energy giant SSE has seen a sharp drop in customer numbers and has cut its full-year earnings forecast. It said it had lost 160,000 customers in the final three months of last year, leaving it with 5.88 million accounts. SSE also cut its profit forecast for this year after […]